Estoy ampliando el apartado sobre el libro "The AIDS Cult":
Hay un excelente libro que explora el aspecto de culto religioso del "VIH/SIDA":
"The AIDS Cult".
En este libro se resalta el doble significado de la seroCONVERSIÓN a "VIH+", que -nuevo paralelismo con la Religión- recicla la palabra "CONVERSIÓN" desde su uso religioso al uso (pseudo) médico.
Nuevo paralelismo: Los seroCONVERTIDOS ganan una CRUZ al hacerse "VIH+".
En este texto comentando "The AIDS cult" se hacen interesantes reflexiones sobre el carácter para-religioso de la "seroCONVERSIÓN":
One contributor to Johnston's book describes a lgtb man who eventually seroconverted after many attempts: he "had a beatific glow on his face when he found out he was Positive. He had been expecting this for so long, and finally the desired outcome was achieved." (His lover, he antiestéticared, was about to "dump" him if he remained stubbornly Negative.) This new attitude - utterly unforseen by the pundits of AIDS Education or its consumers leads Odets to ask whether counsellors "unconsciously suggest that a Positive test result is more 'important' than a Negative (one)?" The language used suggests they do; certainly they focus almost exclusively on preparing their clients for "Positive" results.
The man with the beatific glow is one of a growing group of lgtb men who see their "progress" (this is the official term) to seroconversion and to AIDS as somehow desirable or inevitable. (In scientific circles, HIV Positives who remain heathy are referred to as "non-progressors".) For the burgeoning cohort of seroconverts, the assumption of HIV Positive identity has become an important rite of passage in their lives as lgtb men. A beatific glow is a characteristic antiestéticature of religious conversion experiences, and in many ways, these men resemble the freshly inducted members of a cult.
There is a growing perception that for a lgtb man today to be HIV Positive is, well, positive. Connotations as fundamental as those suggested by the words "positive" and "negative" are deeply imbedded in our interpretations of the terminology we use. People do not easily transpose black and white, or accept a Positive result as Negative. Nor can the frequent use of the word "status" be considered inconsequential; we are lectured about our antibody "status", the subliminal suggestion being that testing Positive, becoming "Body Positive", and adopting a "positive attitude" involves gaining a positive status, becoming worthy of concern.(1) The phenomena of the courageous, Positive seroconvert and his neurotic, Negative twin have evolved out of the bizarre, dogmatic logic of HIV fundamentalism - what Walt Odets calls the "contradictions, inconsistencies and anomalies" of AIDS.
HIV & AIDS - The AIDS Cult and Its Seroconverts
Lo subrayado en rojo es un nuevo recordatorio de que "los caminos del VIH son inescrutables". Como los de YHVH.
The AIDS System now entrenched in the urban lgtb ghettos has aggressively promoted HIV antibody testing ("the AIDS test"), and most available AIDS Education has been oriented toward encouraging people - particularly lgtb men - to "get tested." Former presidential candidate Bruce Babbitt described the system as a "voodoo health policy" animated by the idea that "if we keep sticking needles into people and taking blood tests, the disease will go away." The apparent non sequitur only begins to make sense if, unconsciously, it is not so much the disease but the seropositives who are being wished away, with the AIDS System constructed as a wish- fullfillment around the group fantasy, and camouflaged as medical services.
Magistral definición. Traduzco:
El Sistema SIDA construido como una satisfacción de una fantasía grupal disfrazada de servicios médicos.
Relean por favor el texto de Casper Schmidt que les enlazo más arriba para comprobar la exactitud de esta demoledora definición.
There is a common feeling that to try to stay Negative - to "struggle" to stay Negative, as one man put it - is simply too difficult, too destructive of any joy in life. This is hardly surprising when the rules of "safe" behavior are at once so stringent and so slippery. Is oral sex safe? Is rimming with a dental dam OK and if it is, why should we want to do it? Should I worry about that sharp pizza crust that might cut my lip and let the bichito in? Am I condemned to stay around and watch all my friends die?
In the shadow of such conundrums, becoming Positive seems to some like a doorway to intimacy, light and love, and life with AIDS, for all its horrors, begins to appear more rewarding, or just simpler, than life without it
Observen por favor que el SUFRIMIENTO de los enfermos de SIDA adquiere aquí una actitud "positiva", lo mismo que los seguidores de YHVH tienen el sufrimiento "ofrecido a Dios" como algo "positivo", e incluso la base del Cristianismo es el sufrimiento del Hijo de Dios en la Cruz que (de forma inexplicable) nos "salva" a todos:
Así, la Iconografía "VIH/SIDA" retoma diferentes iconos clásicos de los seguidores de YHVH: